Fritz [Frederick] Ungar

born Vienna, Sept 5, 1898; died New York, Nov 16, 1988

Founder and director of the Viennese publishing company Saturn Verlag.

Career Summary

Fritz Ungar founded Phaidon Verlag in Vienna in 1922. (Phaidon was later re-established
as an art book publisher in London by his former partners.) In 1926 he founded Saturn
Verlag, producing educational books, poetry, fiction, and later books on Jewish matters.
In 1938, Saturn Verlag was aryanized, and Ungar moved to Prague, Switzerland, London,
finally emigrating to the USA, where he published successfully under the name Frederick
Ungar Publishing Co. in New York, issuing literature, including translations of German and
Austrian writers.

Ungar and the Schenker circle

Ungar was a cousin of Oswald Jonas. In 1927, he was
involved in the unrealized plan for a monthly periodical centered on Schenker's theory, to
be called Die Tonkunst.